What is the policy on academic integrity?

The FAES Academic Programs at NIH prides itself on providing quality educational experiences and upholds the highest level of honesty, integrity, and mutual respect. It is our policy that cheating, fabrication or plagiarism by students is not acceptable in any form. If a student is found to be in violation of any, or all of the below, the student's credits will be forfeited, and they may not be allowed to enroll in future courses or education programs administered by FAES.

• Cheating is defined as an attempt to give or obtain inappropriate/unauthorized assistance during any academic exercise, such as during examination, homework assignment, and class presentation.
• Fabrication is defined as the falsification of data, information or citations in any academic materials.
• Plagiarism is defined as using the ideas, methods, or written words of another individual or via artificial intelligence, without proper acknowledgment and with the intention that they be taken as the work of the deceiver. These include, but are not limited to, the use of published articles, paraphrasing, copying someone else’s homework and turning it in as one’s own, and failing to reference footnotes. Procuring information from online sources without proper attribution also constitutes plagiarism.